Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea Quotes
"So I had difficulty deciding," he said. "But I concluded that my personal interests could be reconciled with that natural compassion to which every human being has a right."
"Yes, Professor Aronnax, you must excuse the informality with which I receive you, and the disorder reigning in this lounge."
"My electricity isn't the run-of-the-mill variety."
"I owe everything to the ocean; it generates electricity, and electricity gives the Nautilus heat, light, motion, and, in a word, life itself."
"But it isn't enough just to move, we have to see where we're going!"
"Your modern artists are already as old as the ancients."
"It's a very long cylinder with conical ends. It noticeably takes the shape of a cigar."
"These two dimensions allow you to obtain, via a simple calculation, the surface area and volume of the Nautilus."
"The Nautilus is made up of two hulls, one inside the other; between them, joining them together, are iron T-bars that give this ship the utmost rigidity."
"The first hull has a thickness of no less than five centimeters and weighs 394.96 metric tons."
"So when the Nautilus lies on the waves under these conditions, one-tenth of it does emerge above water."
"These ballast tanks exist within easy access in the lower reaches of the Nautilus."
"Fine, captain, but now we come to a genuine difficulty."
"Then unless you fill up the whole Nautilus, I don't see how you can force it down into the heart of these liquid masses."
"Static objects mustn't be confused with dynamic ones, or we'll be open to serious error."
"Comparatively little effort is spent in reaching the ocean's lower regions, because all objects have a tendency to become 'sinkers.'"
"The sea was plowed continuously by the many steamers providing service between the Gulf of Mexico and New York or Boston, and it was crossed night and day by little schooners engaged in coastal trade over various points on the American shore."
"We were approaching waterways where storms are commonplace, the very homeland of tornadoes and cyclones specifically engendered by the Gulf Stream's current."
"To face a frequently raging sea in a frail skiff was a race to certain disaster."
"So he champed at the bit, in the grip of an intense homesickness that could be cured only by our escape."
"I had a sense of what he was suffering because I also was gripped by homesickness."
"You needed to be Flemish like Conseil to accept these circumstances, living in a habitat designed for cetaceans and other denizens of the deep."
"Truly, if that gallant lad had owned gills instead of lungs, I think he would have made an outstanding fish!"
"Every man, by virtue of his very humanity, deserves fair treatment."
"The sea grew towering, inflated by long swells."
"The Nautilus, sometimes lying on its side, sometimes standing on end like a mast, rolled and pitched frightfully."
"Captain Nemo stared straight at it, as if to inhale the spirit of the storm."
"The full truth dawned on me. One part of Captain Nemo's secret life had been unveiled."
"I hovered in that painful state that predominates during the period of anticipation before some frightful explosion."
"The Nautilus cruised beneath the waters almost continuously."
"My heart was pounding mightily. I couldn't curb its pulsations."
"I felt myself being drawn into that strange domain where the overwrought imagination of Edgar Allan Poe was at home."
"The Maelstrom! Could a more frightening name have rung in our ears under more frightening circumstances?"
"We were in dread, in the last stages of sheer horror, our blood frozen in our veins, our nerves numb, drenched in cold sweat as if from the throes of dying!"